By Roger D. Harris and John Perry, Popular Resistance. The Reactionary Backwash. 2025 saw progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) delegitimized and displaced. Right-wing forces have seized on drug-related crises to attack the so-called Pink Tide governments, driving a reactionary backwash and putting new, neoliberal administrations in power. The irony is that the rise … Read More
Wow, what a year it has been! Much more bad news than good for Latin America – and for Latinos living in the U.S. The Trump administration has taken the gloves off with its aggressive intervention in Latin America, coinciding with active U.S. complicity with ongoing genocide in Palestine and racist attacks on immigrants in the … Read More
By Rick Sterling on December 10, 2025 600,000 rally in Mexico City in support of Claudia Sheinbaum and the Morena program. On Saturday, December 6 an estimated 600 thousand persons packed the huge “Zocalo” plaza in Mexico City to celebrate the seventh anniversary of Mexico’s “Transformation.” President Claudia Sheinbaum, after one year in power, gave … Read More
https://peaceandplanetnews.org/a-tale-of-two-peace-prizes/ Note: Both Roger Harris and Gerry Condon are TFA board members. The Nobel legitimizes the Empire’s war on Venezuela while the US Peace Prize honors resistance. The Nobel Peace Prize was established in 1901. In the decades that followed, Mahatma Gandhi emerged as the international symbol of world peace for resistance to the dominant imperialism of … Read More
Michelle Ellner, CODEPINK CODEPINK Nov 26, 2025 Elliott Abrams has resurfaced with familiar instructions on how to “fix” Venezuela, a country he neither understands nor respects, yet feels entitled to rearrange like a piece of furniture in Washington’s living room. His new proposal is drenched in the same Cold War fever and colonial mindset that … Read More